Why go stare at some big white marble dude named David, when instead you can go shopping for a Fendi sweater?

That’s the attitude of a majority of luxury travelers, according to new statistics. A 2006 study by the Travel Industry Association shows leisure travelers going abroad prefer shopping (53 percent) to sightseeing (48 percent). Among domestic travelers, the only activity more popular than shopping is dining out.

“Travelers have always been interested in shopping,” says Douglas Amrine, publisher of DK Eyewitness, a travel guide series. “But these days people have more disposable income and are traveling more frequently and more adventurously. As a result, they are shopping in foreign countries more than they used to.”

BRAVO! - We at Style Clinic by Astin Brown Inc ensure our guests are matched to the right stores, make the right decisions and spend time with stylists so that precious shopping time is minus mistakes…and when it comes to sightseeing we compress the experience with city devotees who are experts in unwrapping the city minus the tour bus, queues and cameras.

Source: Shivani Vora - FORBES / MSBC Updated:  June 22, 2007. Picture Alamy

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